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Review of “The Swinger”

July 12, 2011 by John Strawn

The Swinger is the kind of novel the French call a roman à clef. A literary strategy designed to pillory real people by creating characters whose identities have been disguised just enough to give the author—or in this case, authors—plausible deniability, the roman à clef has long been used to settle scores, or to provide […]

Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle Buys Gearhart Golf Links.

May 16, 2011 by John Strawn

There hasn’t been a lot of great news in the golf business lately, so when I heard that Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear, had bought Gearhart Golf Links on the north Oregon coast, I was both encouraged and amazed.  Gearhart’s history is richer than its reputation, but it’s still the only public course worth […]

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